Excerpt from Reports of the Progress of Applied Chemistry, 1921, Vol. 6 Owing probably to the general industrial depression, very little Of great interest has appeared during the past year, which seems to have been devoted chiefly to minor improvements in existing plant and to investigations having for their Object the collection of data which may serve as a basis for improving the design, working, and efficiency of various types of chemical plant. There is still room for a great deal of research in this direction and the joint action of the Association Of British Chemical Manufacturers and the British Chemical Plant Manufacturers' Association in forming a Committee to consider the standardisation of chemical plant will, it is hoped, lead to results of great benefit to the industry, not only by rendering various types of plant uniform in design and construction and facilitating output, but also - and this is perhaps more important in some respects - enabling broken parts to be replaced from stock. This would do away with many serious delays to the course of production due to the breakdown of machinery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.